3+
Years building AI systems
10+
Systems shipped to production
Hello
I’m Ayoub Benali — a Senior Data Scientist turning Computer Vision & Agentic AI research into production systems that ship.
(About)
Senior Data Scientist specializing in Computer Vision, Agentic AI, LLMs, RAG, Deep Learning and MLOps — turning research into scalable, business-ready systems.
With 3+ years of experience designing and deploying production-grade AI solutions, I build end-to-end machine learning systems, optimize model performance, lead technical delivery, and transform research prototypes into scalable applications that create real business value.
- Experience
- 3+ Years
- Based in
- Casablanca, MA
- Availability
- Open to work
(Experience)
Where I’ve worked
Senior AI Engineer
07/2025 — PresentMarwa · Remote / Morocco
- Lead the design and production deployment of end-to-end AI systems, from research and prototyping to scalable release.
- Define AI technical roadmaps, system architecture and MLOps best practices while coordinating technical teams and business stakeholders.
- Designed and delivered an original AI-powered search architecture integrated into the core product to improve information retrieval and decision support.
- Work on Agentic AI concepts, intelligent workflow automation and AI-assisted decision systems to improve operational efficiency.
AI Engineering Intern
02/2025 — 06/2025Capgemini Engineering · Casablanca, Morocco
- Developed an AI solution to optimize the 3D bin packing problem and maximize space utilization in shipping parcels.
- Designed a genetic algorithm for combinatorial optimization with real-world constraints (weight, orientation, fragility), achieving a fill rate above 90%.
- Built a Transformer-based reinforcement learning agent trained with PPO to learn efficient loading strategies.
- Built decision-support tools for operational optimization, improving packaging robustness and automation readiness.
Data Scientist
04/2023 — 02/2025Swippro · Remote, France
- Designed and deployed an AI-powered recommendation system, improving user profile suggestions and engagement.
- Preprocessed 10,000+ user profiles using BERT for semantic encoding and PCA for dimensionality reduction.
- Implemented clustering algorithms to group users by affinity, increasing recommendation conversion rate by 20%.
- Optimized ML pipelines and model inference workflows, contributing to scalable AI services for production use.
(Projects)
Selected projects
2024Self-Driving Car
Computer Vision · OpenCV lane detection and real-time navigation for an autonomous car on embedded hardware.
2024Real-Time Enemy Detection (YOLO)
Computer Vision · YOLO object detection for real-time, low-latency in-game enemy tracking.
2024Urban Building Edge Detection (DQN)
Deep Reinforcement Learning · A DQN agent for building edge detection in urban imagery.
2025EEG Emotion Detection
Research · Real-time emotion detection on the DEAP dataset using FFT band power and a BiLSTM model — 94% accuracy.
2024Conflict BI Dashboard
Data Engineering · Web scraping and ETL feeding an interactive BI analytics dashboard.
2024Moroccan Music Classification
Machine Learning · Audio feature extraction and genre classification of Moroccan music.
(Services)
What I do
A focused set of services to take your product from idea to launch — and beyond.
Computer Vision
Object & lane detection, image processing and real-time inference on embedded and production hardware with OpenCV and PyTorch.
Agentic AI, LLMs & RAG
Intelligent workflow automation, AI-powered search, retrieval-augmented generation and AI-assisted decision systems.
Deep Learning & NLP
Transformers, BiLSTM, reinforcement learning (PPO), BERT embeddings and recommendation systems for real-world problems.
MLOps & Deployment
End-to-end ML pipelines, Docker, Kubernetes, GCP and CI/CD to serve and scale models reliably in production.
(Publication & Certifications)
Research & credentials
Enhancing EEG-Based Emotion Detection with Hybrid Models
Peer-reviewed research on real-time emotion classification from EEG signals, achieving 94% accuracy with a BiLSTM model.
Sensors — MDPI, Q1 Journal
Neural Networks and Deep Learning
DeepLearning.AI
Data Analysis
IBM
Machine Learning
DeepLearning.AI
(Let’s work together)
Let’s build something intelligent
Have an AI project, research idea or role in mind? I’m open to new opportunities — let’s talk about how I can help.